Physicians Practice Pearls®

Two cards tacked to a covered bulletin board help one physician remember why she practices medicine.

Residency can be a fearful time in a doctor’s career, but it doesn’t have to be unbearable. Here are some tips for recent medical school graduates as they begin their training.

In order to reduce the incidence of clinical errors in judgment, physicians should be aware of cognitive biases and practice strategies to mitigate their impact.

Physicians are specialists in medical care, but they sometimes need help with the business side of medical practice.

Physician assistants can help physicians manage patients, their schedule, and work-life balance.

Reaching out to groups within your practice can improve morale, invigorate and encourage problem solving, and generally make your work life more pleasant and profitable.

Getting your patients to take the first step towards better health can be a struggle. Here is a simple reframing technique that could help.

Reflect on what requests you want to accept before obediently saying yes, especially those that detract from your career goals.

A high-performing website can help further your brand, serve as a useful resource and showcase pleased patients.

Patient grievances about their visits to medical practices can be sorted into three categories that require action by all employees.

Imagine: the freedom to care for patients the way you want to, not the way insurance mandates or regulations require.

Seven ways to adapt to new regulations coming from D.C. while still managing to treat patients.

How to recognize-and overcome-the common thought process of overconfidence when it comes to practicing medicine.

While human contact is natural and banter is commonplace, be mindful of how words and actions are received by those with different perceptions.

Staff training is essential to running a successful practice. Here are four reasons why it often gets overlooked and how to change that.

A Lean Six Sigma concept can help medical practices boost patient satisfaction and experience by simply looking at who does the tasks required.

"Leading by examples" means giving our team clear direction on what great care is. Here’s how to start.

Tech and staffing are two ways that your practice can reduce burnout for physicians and other stressed out employees.

What is time-driven activity based cost accounting and how does it help your practice understand the cost of seeing a patient?

People don't like being told what to do - they prefer to be encouraged to think through how to best manage a situation.

Look at the easy stuff to reduce the cost of overhead at your practice and go from there. There's a lot of money to be saved.

Are you issuing embarrassing correction emails after goofing up your initial correspondence? Here's how to avoid this snafu.

With more patients likely to be uninsured due to the individual mandate repeal, here are creative ways of providing cost effective primary care.

Here is how you can give your practice staff constructive feedback, helping them build on strengths and discover ways to improve.

When it comes to designing your practice, be sure to design with the patient, and then the doctor, in mind.

Here are nine things you can be doing to ensure that your practice is putting its patients first.

If you're nervous about giving a presentation to staff, colleagues, patients, or to the public, here are a few things to know.

Here are five tactics to reduce many of the more common risks of data loss at your practice. Make sure you're up to date.